Just fyi, there's no evidence afaik that TIP in anyway was derived from ETIM (if you were referring to ETIM as a group instead of an idea). ETIM was most likely a tiny group of like 20 people that went to Afghanistan in 1999, and all were dead by 2003 or in GITMO having been sold/captured to the Americans. TIP popped up several years later with a video threatening the Beijing Olympics, and claims to be descended from ETIM but there's no evidence (or at least extremely sketch evidence) they are. The whole narrative around the inception of ETIM is really weird, because basically they suddenly pop with a Chinese report given to the UN in 2001 claiming they had existed since the early 90s but no scholars in the region had ever heard of the group before and the evidence that was given to the Pentagon that got the US to declare ETIM a real threatening organization is still classified and was never released. It's confusing though because the Chinese government wants TIP to look connected to ETIM (as does the TIP itself) and refers to them officially as ETIM often because it extends Uyghur extremism in Syria back into the 1990s in China.
Here's a paper all the way back in 2012 that was trying to analyze the narrative ETIM existed in a verifiable substantial way that US terrorism experts were claiming it did at the time.
I agree, just noting the ambiguity since calling TIP ETIM creates a chain stretching back into the 90s inside of China where I don't necessarily think one exists.
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Just fyi, there's no evidence afaik that TIP in anyway was derived from ETIM (if you were referring to ETIM as a group instead of an idea). ETIM was most likely a tiny group of like 20 people that went to Afghanistan in 1999, and all were dead by 2003 or in GITMO having been sold/captured to the Americans. TIP popped up several years later with a video threatening the Beijing Olympics, and claims to be descended from ETIM but there's no evidence (or at least extremely sketch evidence) they are. The whole narrative around the inception of ETIM is really weird, because basically they suddenly pop with a Chinese report given to the UN in 2001 claiming they had existed since the early 90s but no scholars in the region had ever heard of the group before and the evidence that was given to the Pentagon that got the US to declare ETIM a real threatening organization is still classified and was never released. It's confusing though because the Chinese government wants TIP to look connected to ETIM (as does the TIP itself) and refers to them officially as ETIM often because it extends Uyghur extremism in Syria back into the 1990s in China.
Here's a paper all the way back in 2012 that was trying to analyze the narrative ETIM existed in a verifiable substantial way that US terrorism experts were claiming it did at the time.
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I agree, just noting the ambiguity since calling TIP ETIM creates a chain stretching back into the 90s inside of China where I don't necessarily think one exists.